We are looking today at just the first chapter entitled “Icons: An Introduction”, particularly focusing on the development of the Russian iconographic tradition from the seventh to the sixteenth century. Spira gives a brief history and explanation of the iconoclast controversy that I particularly ap...
Madonna and her five siblings were raised in a Catholic family, her father having Italian ancestry and her mother of French-Canadian background. When she was six, her mother died from breast cancer. In 1966, her father married the family's housekeeper, and they had two children. Madonna sta...
v.以新形象示人;以新形式出现[to present yourself/sth in a new form or with a new image] eg:The former wild man of rock has reinvented himself as a respectable family man.过去的那位摇滚狂人已经改变形象,成了一位体面的爱家的男人。 16.layer n.表层 eg:How many layers of clothing are you...
“Beautiful Chifundo James! you’re 18 yrs [sic] old today!! Beautiful Mercy James. You’re already a young woman! Beautiful African Queen!! You Surprised all of us!,” Madonna wrote. “That hand that was once frozen in your mouth as a child — now makes magic happen whe...
The piece of paper was addressed as the "penthouse suite" so I thought she was rich or had a rich family. When the doors opened [on the top floor of her building], it was crumbled staircases and a paper plate that said "Penthouse Suite" with an arrow pointing up the stairs stuck ...
Even today, the normally taciturn DeMann can sit in a massive suite at the St. Regis hotel in New York and go ballistic with adjectives when recalling his first meeting with the sexy little urchin from Pontiac, Michigan, the product of a strict Catholic household, whose mother had died when...
Today is Madonna Day in the Pitchfork Reviews section; in honor of her birthday, we reviewed four of her key records. 今天Pitchfork只评Madonna的专辑,为庆祝她的生日,我们回顾了四张她的经典专辑(《Madonna》《Like A Prayer》《Bedtime Stories》《Ray of Light》)。
Channeling acid electronica, Kabbalah, and motherhood, Madonna’s 1998 reinvention stripped away the controversy of her past and became one of her most unexpectedly successful albums.Today is Madonna Day in the Pitchfork Reviews section; in honor of her birthday, we reviewed four of her key record...
Most significantly, Madonna’s belief in the dance floor as a sacred space is described in “Vogue” with words some will find as inspiring in 2017 as listeners almost three decades ago did: “When all else fails and you long to be something better than you are today, I know a place ...
“I want to write my this-is-who-the-fuck-I-am anthem, but I don’t want it to be hidden in poetic wizardry and metaphors. I want it to be an attack, an assault on the issue because I think, especially in today’s music, everything gets kind of washy sometimes and the message...